The title of this page may seem like a bold statement, but there is some very
interesting evidence to consider. As we established in the chapter on the
creation of the material world, when the Supreme Being created the universe He
also provided the Vedic knowledge and terminology by which humanity could live
peacefully as well as advance spiritually. Even the Bible (Genesis
11:1) describes how originally during pre-Christian times, "the whole earth
was of one language and one speech." And, as we can see from the evidence
in the previous chapters, that language was Sanskrit.

Theologians in general agree that despite diverse scriptures and tales of
various people experiencing or hearing the voice of God, the immanent Divinity
is One. Even physicists agree that the ultimate source of all elements has to be
one. History too began from a single point. This means that the origination of
the universe as well as the beginning of mankind was a purposeful and arranged
event. It was not a chance encounter, a random, freakish, or spontaneous
beginning, but an expansion from the Absolute Truth.

Since there is but one ultimate source of everything, all human activity
started from that divine beginning. And activity means thought and speech. As
the Vedic texts explains, the original language was Sanskrit, as taught by the
Supreme Himself. We find that even the 1951 edition of the Encyclopedia
Britannica (P. 70, Vol 13) describes that some scholars gave up attempts to
explain the origin of language and have fallen back to the religious explanation
that the first language was given by God to man.

Some people, however, feel that ancient man was able to only slowly develop a
language of his own. This is thought to have started from grunts and noises like
animals until it somehow shaped into the different languages we find today. So
does that mean that babies will also develop some kind of language of their own
if they are given enough time and not taught one? As described in P. N. Oak's
book, World Vedic Heritage (p. 130), the 16th century Moghul emperor,
Akbar, had also questioned this. Being in such a position of authority, he was
able to indulge in a heartless experiment. He ordered several infant children to
be taken away from their mothers and be confined to a house. No one was
permitted to speak anything to the children, even when clothed and fed. The
result was that they all grew to be dumb adults. They could speak no language at
all. Neither did they develop any form of communication between themselves.
Therefore, the idea that man will eventually educate himself or even develop a
language on his own is mistaken. All knowledge must be given by a superior,
which is exactly what the Vedic literature says happened at the beginning of
time. The Vedic references explain that human civilization began by the
arrangement of the Supreme. Man was given an original consciousness by which he
had knowledge of the Sanskrit language and was guided by Vedic information, as
taught by Lord Brahma and the numerous sages that followed. Thus, the ancient
Vedic culture is the primordial culture of the whole world and not exclusive to
India, Arabia, or Sumeria. It is universal.

The philosopher and researcher Edward Pococke also wrote about this
conclusion in his book India in Greece (page 251). He states: "Sir
William Jones concluded that the Hindus had an immemorial antiquity with the old
Persians, Ethiopians and Egyptians, the Phoenicians, Greeks and Tuscans, the
Scythians or Goths, and the Celts, the Chinese, Japanese and Peruvians."
The observance of this global connection between India and the rest of the world
is actually an indication that the whole world was once under the influence of
the Vedic culture. Thus, it was India who nurtured the rest of the world with
her wisdom and Vedic knowledge.

Pococke continues in this vein in his observation: "Now the whole of the
society of Greece, civil and military, must strike one as being eminently
Asiatic, much of it specially Indian. . . I shall demonstrate that these
evidences were but the attendant tokens of Indian colonization with its
corresponding religion and language. I shall exhibit dynasties disappearing from
India, western India, to appear again in Greece, clans who fought upon the
plains of Troy." Therefore, since Greece is supposed to be the origins of
European culture, and since Greece displays much of the same culture as India,
we can say that the pre-Christian culture of Europe was Vedic.

In fact, it may be the case that without the connection with India, Greece
may not have been a major contributor to the advancement of Europe. Godfrey
Higgins writes in his book The Celtic Druids (p. 112), "In science
the Greeks were pygmies. What would they have known of science if their Platos
and Pythagorases had not traveled into the East! In science and real learning
they were inferior to the Orientals [Indians], and were the greatest liars upon
earth. They willfully mis-stated everything or they foolishly confounded
everything."

William Durant, author of the 10-volume Story of Civilization,
wrote, "India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of
European languages. She was the mother of our philosophy. . . of our
mathematics. . . of the ideals embodied in Christianity. . . of self-government
and democracy. . . Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all."

Interestingly, Sir Isaac Tailor, the author of The Origins of the Aryans,
wrote in a similar way (page 1), "Adelung, the father of comparative
philosophy. . . placed the cradle of mankind in the valley of Kashmir, which he
identified with paradise. To Adelung we owe the opinion, which has prevailed so
widely, that since the human race originated in the East, most westerly nations,
the Iberians and Celts, must have been the first to leave the parent."

As explained in World Vedic Heritage (p. 115), this is also the
conclusion of Mr. B. C. Chhabra, who is the ex-Assistant Director General of
Archeology under the British administration in India. He writes, "I do not
want to go deep into the larger question of the theory of evolution which is
today at the base of archeological interpretations, but I must need say that the
history of Indian civilization begins with knowledge and not barbarism. The kind
of knowledge that has been preserved therein has stood the test of time and is
still unsurpassed in certain respects. It believes in an evolution of limited
extent only and that for a definite period of time in the history of man's life
as also in that of a nation. To base the entire history of mankind, down to the
present-day, on the ape-man and the archeological ages of Paleolithic,
Neolithic, Bronze and Iron is a travesty of facts. Even in the present age of
great scientific achievements the ape-man cannot produce the homosapiens,
obviously because they are two different species. Recent archeologists have
proved abundantly that these ages have no meaning because different cultural
ages are found in different regions, and that sometimes they co-existed in the
same region which cannot be explained on the basis of the theory of
evolution." Thus, regardless of the classifications made by archeologists
about the ancient history of mankind, as confirmed by the prehistoric records of
the Vedic literature, India was the center from where spread the intellectually
superior Vedic culture, and is, therefore, the source of humanity's spiritual
heritage.

The Preface of Vol. VI of Indian Antiquities (pp 11-13) also points
one in this same direction: "The Hindu religion probably spread over the
whole earth; there are signs of it in every system of worship. . . the
arithmetic, astronomy, astrology, the holidays, games, names of the stars, and
figures of constellations, the language of the different nations bear the
strongest marks of the same origin."

The discerning and honest Christian author Godfrey Higgins wrote in his book,
The Celtic Druids (p. 61), about the basis of all human civilization
originating from India and the Vedic culture. "The peninsula of India would
be one of the first peopled countries, and its inhabitants would have all the
habits of progenitors of man before the flood in as much perfection or more than
any other nation. . . In short, whatever learning man possessed before his
dispersion. . . may be expected to be found here; and of this Hindustan affords
innumerable traces. . . notwithstanding all. . . the fruitless efforts of our
priests to disguise it."

The above quotes would indicate that the Vedic culture was a global faith, a
world influence. This may be given further credence in the remarks of Ctesias,
the Greek writer (as found in Historical Researches, Vol. II, p.220),
"The Hindus were as numerous as all the other nations put together."

This is further corroborated in P. N. Oak's World Vedic Heritage (p.
506) in which he presents evidence that, "In pre-Christian times the
temples of Vedic Deities such as Vishnu, Shiva, the Mother goddess, Rama,
Hanuman, and Krishna used to abound in all regions of the world. Evidence of
this is found in the works of ancient authors such as Megasthenes, Strabo, and
Herodotus. All those names are of Vedic origin, too. The term Megasthenes is
Megh-Sthan-eesh, i.e. the Lord of the Region of the clouds. The name Herodotus
is Hari-dootus, i.e. Messenger of [Hari] God."

In Some Missing Chapters of World History (p. 134), P. N. Oak also
explains that Shiva was worshiped all over the world, even in the Vatican. The
word vatican comes from the Sanskrit word vatica, which means
a bower or sylvan hermitage. He explains that even the premises of the Vatican
have many Shiva emblems buried in their walls and cellars. Many such emblems
have been dug up in other parts of Italy as well. And some of those found in the
Vatican are still preserved in the Vatican's Etruscan museum.

Another point is that the original worship of the Mother Goddess can be
traced back to India. Whether this Goddess is called Ma, Uma, Mata, Amba, Shakti,
Durga, Bhagavati, Parameshvari, Kali, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Astarte, Venus, Ceres,
Mother Mary, Mariamma, Madonna, Notre Dame, etc., it can be traced to the Vedic
culture where such worship originated.

Albert J. Edmonds, in his book Buddhist and Christian Gospels, also
explains that, "Strabo considered all Asia as far as India to be
consecrated to Bacchus where Hercules and Bacchus are called Kings of the East.
The last religions of Babylon and Egypt were born there. Even the Greeks and the
Romans were debtors thereto for the cult of Bacchus and Mithras."

Bacchus refers to Bakesh or Tryambakesh, Shiva. Hercules refers to
Hari-culeesh, Lord Krishna. They were known as Kings or supreme deities of the
East. Since the religions of Babylon and Egypt were born in Asia, and Greeks and
Romans observed a similar version of the Bacchus cult and one of Mithras, the
sun, it is obvious the whole world followed, or was influenced by, Vedic
culture. The reason is that all of these deities can be traced back to India, or
are directly Vedic deities. From this information we can begin to understand
that Vedic culture was a cause of worldwide unity, or the parent culture of all
humanity.